“[Luis von Ahn – inventor of the captcha] says that about 200M captchas are typed every day. He was proud of that until he realized it takes about 10 seconds to type them, so his invention is wasting 500,000 hours per day.”- David Weinberger I wonder if Samuel Segal feels similarily.
Category Archives: General
How Media is Like a Camera Lense
“…all lenses distort and shape ‘reality’ to some degree.” – Mark Woods
A Message on the Space Telephone Answering Machine
Dave Slusher’s clambake from April 6 2009 accompanied me on my between meeting drives today. Yes, you read that correct – 2009. A podcast he recorded more than a year ago. It’s a great listen. He discusses how the people publishing to services like Twitter don’t own their own words. The company does. And the …
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Demanding
“But imagine an incident far more disruptive and deadly when we really needed to move masses of people quickly. The major transportation and travel institutions that would do the mass movement of people seem to be woefully unprepared and unable to scale up quickly” – David Weinberger Ironic given the internet’s origins as a national …
How you decide to communicate…
“How you decide to communicate is a fundamental choice in the creation of the most prosperous economy your life can provide” – Tyler Cowen, ‘Create Your Own Economy: The Path to Prosperity in a Disordered World’
Sing it with me, “Copying is not theft”
‘Copying Is Not Theft’ released by QuestionCopyright.org Download your copy from archive.org I see copyright (ownership) & licensing (usage) as 2 separate issues and think a we’d all be better off if more things were placed under the
“…in order for a cap and trade scheme or a carbon tax to yield significant declines in our consumption of hydrocarbon fuels, policies would have to be geared to push the price of oil to at least $100/bbl. Meanwhile, however, our economy has done a tremendous job of becoming more energy efficient…” – Scott Grannis
“YouTube is behaving like a television network and not like a tube for you.” – Christian Sandvig
Download Source
‘View Source’ was responsible for the hockey-stick growth of past 10 years of the web. ‘Download Source’ will be responsible for it’s hockey-stick growth in the next 15 years.